Child Murders (Gyerekgyilkosságok)
German title: Kindermorde
Francaise title: Meurtres d’enfants
Greek title: Φόνοι παιδιών
Russian title: Детские убийства
Original title: Gyerekgyilkosságok
Francaise title: Meurtres d’enfants
Greek title: Φόνοι παιδιών
Russian title: Детские убийства
Original title: Gyerekgyilkosságok
Alternative titles:
Fonoi paidion / Детоубийцы
Fonoi paidion / Детоубийцы
Youth drama – Hungary, Germany
Production year: 1992
Movie length: 78 minutes
Production year: 1992
Movie length: 78 minutes
Director: Ildikó Szabó
Writer: Ildikó Szabó
Cinematograph: Tamás Sas
Music: János Másik
Writer: Ildikó Szabó
Cinematograph: Tamás Sas
Music: János Másik
Movie description:
Zsolt lives with his bedridden, alcoholic grandmother who demands his constant attention. He finds friendship with a pregnant gypsy girl and helps her when she has a miscarriage, but at the cost of being ostracized and beaten by other children.
Twelve years old, Zsolt has lived in a tiny Budapest apartment with his elderly grandmother since his mother abandoned him. However, it is more the case that he takes care of her, getting her up in the morning, sing-ing with her, bathing her. She is an alcoholic, and her grandson is an object of derision among his schoolmates. Ibi, who lives in the same apartment building, is cold in the extreme, taunting and bullying Zsolt daily; it is she who has given him the nickname Sodabottle because he wears glasses. How can a child be this way? Ibi has a mother who insists she always wear white dresses – mostly as a way of asserting her power over her daughter because, it is implied, she also is miserably unhappy with her lot in life. Thus Ibi »acts out« on Zsolt for the unhappiness that’s being inflicted upon her at home.
Zsolt befriends a homeless, pregnant Gypsy girl. When Juli suffers a miscarriage and they dispose of the corpse in the Danube, Ibi tattles to the police, who incarcerate Juli as a baby killer; in prison Juli commits suicide. In a stunning shot Ibi herself goes into the Danube and drowns, the result of strength that the spirit of revenge has given the slight boy. Zsolt seems poised to lose what little he has when his grandmother becomes deathly ill.
Twelve years old, Zsolt has lived in a tiny Budapest apartment with his elderly grandmother since his mother abandoned him. However, it is more the case that he takes care of her, getting her up in the morning, sing-ing with her, bathing her. She is an alcoholic, and her grandson is an object of derision among his schoolmates. Ibi, who lives in the same apartment building, is cold in the extreme, taunting and bullying Zsolt daily; it is she who has given him the nickname Sodabottle because he wears glasses. How can a child be this way? Ibi has a mother who insists she always wear white dresses – mostly as a way of asserting her power over her daughter because, it is implied, she also is miserably unhappy with her lot in life. Thus Ibi »acts out« on Zsolt for the unhappiness that’s being inflicted upon her at home.
Zsolt befriends a homeless, pregnant Gypsy girl. When Juli suffers a miscarriage and they dispose of the corpse in the Danube, Ibi tattles to the police, who incarcerate Juli as a baby killer; in prison Juli commits suicide. In a stunning shot Ibi herself goes into the Danube and drowns, the result of strength that the spirit of revenge has given the slight boy. Zsolt seems poised to lose what little he has when his grandmother becomes deathly ill.
Boy Actors
Barnabás Tóth
(Zsolt Balogh, 12 years old)
(Zsolt Balogh, 12 years old)
Birthday: 09.12.1977
Age of the actor:
approximately 14 years old
Age of the actor:
approximately 14 years old
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